Quotes About Self-improvement

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

If you won't improve yourself, who will?

Unless and until you introspect you cannot even respect yourself. You cannot even love yourself. If you love yourself you will introspect and find out what's wrong.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself?

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify yourself, and the world is bound to be purified.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma. Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

Works (Golden Deer Classics)

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.

It is a well-known psychological fact that those who are ever ready to abuse others cannot bear the slightest touch of criticism from others.

Enjoy the goal of life that you have in yourself from now on. Try to achieve the goal. Include it in your daily pages; Until you achieve your goal

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.